Railway-tie and rail-fastening.



J. F. HAWLEY.

RAILWAY TIE AND RAIL FASTENING.

APPLICATION FILE!) DEC. 4. 1916.

Patented Mar. 6, 1917.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1 J. F. HAWLEY.

RAILWAY TIE AND RAIL FASTENING.

APPLICATION FILED DEC..4. I916.

1,21 8,554. Patented Mar. 6, 1917.

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JOHN F. HAWLEY, 0F CHILLICOTHE, MISSOURI.

RAILWAY-TIE AND RAIL-FASTENING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 6, 1917.

Application filed December 4, 1916. Serial No. 134,975.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN F. HAWLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ghillicothe, in the county of Livingstonand State of Missouri, have invented certain new. and useful Improvements in Railway-Ties and Rail-Fastenings, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved railway tie and rail fastening and has as its primary object to provide a metal tie construction formed with seats for receiving and holding the rails against lateral movement and provided with lateral chair flanges at the said seats to bear beneath the rails.

The invention has as a further object to provide an arrangement employing clamping plates for connecting the rails with the tie with the said plates engaging with the chair flanges of the tie and acting to wedge the rails within the rail seats.

And the invention has as a still further object to provide an arrangement wherein the rail clamping plates will be formed with hooks for engagement with the chair flanges of the tie with the said hooks arrangedto confront opposite-sides of the tie and disposed to cooperate therewith for holding the said plates against movement transversely with respect to the tie to thus rigidly con nect the rails therewith.

Other and incidental objects will appear as the description proceeds and in the drawings wherein I have illustrated the preferred embodiment of the invention and wherein similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views:

Figure 1 is a perspective viewv of my improved tie and rail fastening and conventionally illustrating the rails in position upon the tie,

Fig. 2 is a side elevation with the rails shown in section and with the clamping plates for one of the rails partly broken away to show the bolts employed at the joint between the sections of the said rail,

Fig. 3 is a sectional view illustrating the adjustable connection between the coacting clamping plates for the rails Fig. 4 is a fragmentary sectional view with the rail shown in elevation, this view particularly illustrating the manner in which the attaching hooks of the rail clamping plates are arranged to confront opposite sides of the tie for holding the said plates against movement transversely with respect to the tie, and

Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view illustrating the notches formed in the side walls of the tie at the extremities thereof to provide seats for. the rails with the chair flanges extending laterally from the said seats and also showing one of the rail clamping plates.

In carrying out the invention, a metal tie is employed substantially channelshaped in cross-section and provided with a bottom wall 10 having side walls 11 upstanding therefrom. Adjacent opposite extremities of the tie, the upper edges of the side walls are provided with oppositely disposed notches providing rail seats 12 and extending laterally and outwardly from the said seats, are chair flanges 13 preferably integral with the side walls of the tie. The rails which have been conventionally illustrated at A and B are engaged by their base flanges within the seats 12 at opposite ends of the tie with the said rails seating flat upon the chair flanges l3, and it will be observed that the seats 12 are arranged tosnugly engage opposite side edges of the base flanges of the rails for holding the rails against lateral movement with respect to the tie.

' Arranged to cooperate with the rails are clamping plates 14, therefor. Each of these plates is ofthe type particularly illustrated in Fig. 5 ofthe drawings and is formed. with a vertical flange 15 to seat against the rail web for engagement beneath the tread of the rail, and a lateral flange 16 disposed to ride upon the upper edges of the side walls 11 of the tie.. The plates 14 are arranged at opposite sides of the rails A and B and as will be noted, the lower faces of the flanges 16 thereof are beveled to seat against the sloping upper faces of the base flanges of the rails. Extending downwardlv and inwardly from the said flanges, adjacent opposite extremities of the plates, are attaching hooks 17, the bills 18 of which areformed with straight inner edges to engage beneath the chair flanges 13 of the tie for connecting the plates thereto.

Struck from the flanges 16 of the plates 14: between the hooks 17 and arranged to depend between the side walls 11 of the tie, are lugs or wings 19 and extending between the lugs of the plates of each of the rails, are a pair of clamping'bolts or elements 20 adjustable for clamping the rails between the said plates.

Attention is now directed to the fact that the normal distance'between the beveled inner faces of the flanges 16 of the plates 14 and the straight inner edges of the bills 18 of the hooks 17 is less than the combined thickness of the base flanges of the rails and the chair flanges 13. Consequently, when the bolts 20 are operated to clamp the said plates against the rails, the flanges 16 of the plates, as they ride inwardly over the rail flanges, are caused to wedge the base flanges of the rails within the seats 12 0f the tie and against the chair flanges 13 with the bills 18 of the hooks engaging beneath the said chair flanges for thus tightly and yield ably connecting the rails with the tie. this way, vibration between the parts is over come while, at the same time, the hooks 17 are arranged to abut the side walls of the tie, as particularly shown in Fig. 4;, for holding the plates 14L and the rails against movement transversely with respect to the tie. Also, it will be observed that the flanges 13 will form an entirely suflicient bearing area for the rails with the said flanges providing a convenient means for connecting the rail clamping plates with the tie.

For connecting the sections of a rail atthe joint therebetween, bolts 21 are employed as illustrated in connection with the rail B. These bolts are fitted through the upstanding flanges 15 of the plates engaging the rail and through elongated openings in the rail webs for securely joining the rail sections with the saidv flanges of the plates engaging beneath the rail treads to cooperate with the said bolts for holding the rail ends against vertical movement with respect to each other.

. It will therefore be seen that I provide a very simple and practical construction for the purpose set forth and an arrangement wherein the rails may be easily and quickly attached to or detached from the tie.

If required partitions, represented at 22, may be inserted adjacent to the clamp members to protect them from the ballast material and prevent the ballast material from interfering with the adjustments.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. In a device of the character described, a tie provided with chair flanges, rail clamping plates seating upon the tie, means carried by said plates and engaging opposite margins of said flanges for connecting the plates with the tie with the said means confronting opposite sides of the tie for holding the plates against movement transversely with respect to the tie, and means connecting the said plates.

2. In a device of the character described, a tie provided with flanges, rail clamping plates seating upon the tie, means carried by said plates and engaging with said flanges for connecting the plates with the tie, and means connecting said plates and cooperating with said flrst mentioned means for holding the plates in position wedging the rail upon the tie.

8. I11 a device of the character described,

a tie, rail clamping plates seating upon the tie, means carried by said plates and operatively connecting the plates with the tie, and means adjustably connecting the said plates and operable for clamping the plates against the rail and shifting the said plates to wedge the rail upon the tie.

4. In a device of the character described, a tie provided with side walls having lateral chair flanges extending therefrom, rail clamping plates seated upon the said Walls and provided with hooks engaging beneath said flanges from opposite sides thereof, and a clamping element extending between the plates for holding the plates in engagement with a rail seated upon said flanges.

5. In a device of the character described, a tie having the side walls thereof notched to provide rail seats, coacting clamping plates riding upon the upper edges of the side walls of the tie, means carried by said plates and operatively connecting the plates with the tie, and means extending between the plates for holding the said plates in engagement with a rail fitted in said seats and held thereby against movement longitudinally with respect to the tie.

-6. In a device of the character described, a tie having notches formed in the side walls thereof to provide rail seats, chair flanges extending laterally from the side walls at the said seats, rail clamping plates seating upon the upper edges of the side walls of the tie and provided with hooks engaging with said flanges, and a clamping element extending between said plates for holding the plates in engagement with a rail fitted in said seats and resting upon said flanges.

7. In. a device of the character described, a tie having chair flanges extending laterally from the side walls thereof, rail clamping plates seating upon the tie, hooks carried by said plates and engaging beneath said flanges for connecting the plates with the tie, depending lugs carried by the said plates, and a clamping element extending between the said lugs and connecting the plates and engaging beneath opposite sides plates for holding the plates in engagement of said flanges for connecting the plates with v with a rail seated upon the said chair flanges. the tie, and means 1 connecting the said. 10

8. In a device of the character described, plates. 5 a tie provided with lateral flanges, rail In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

clamping plates seating upon the tie, inwardly extending hooks carried by said JOHN F. HAWLEY. [L.s.]

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